Johnny Walker isn’t pleased with the fight fans harassing him online. He’s even angrier at those who have turned their digital ire to his fiancee. Walker’s recent first-round knockout loss to Jamahal Hill stirred up the trolls in the online MMA community enough to warrant a statement from the beleaguered fighter.
On his YouTube channel, Walker blasted the portion of the fanbase more interested in memes and jokes than fighters’ wellbeing.
Johnny Walker Blasts Toxic Fans Harassing His Fiancee
“For me, it’s okay. Onto the next one, right? But what’s making me really upset is f*cking people don’t care about the fighters’ health and what happens after, you know? They just care about the pictures and make the jokes. What made me upset was people message me and comment the jokes. People don’t care about other people’s health.
I train so hard, I’m very committed to my career. And when I get to the fight to make my best show for the fans, if I get hurt or something like that happens, people just make jokes about the knockout. They don’t care about my health or if I have brain damage, if I’m okay.”
Johnny Walker is more accustomed to knocking opponents out than taking them himself. Fifteen of his eighteen career wins came via KO, but alarmingly, four of his seven losses came the same way. With numbers like that, Walker could be a prime candidate for CTE, which sent him to the hospital immediately following the Hill loss. Even the MMA press couldn’t resist rubbing salt in the wound as Johnny Walker lay in a hospital bed.
“I spent so many hours in the hospital getting checked out. I’m 100 percent good, the brain scan and everything is okay but they don’t know. They don’t really care about what happens with my health.
They send messages for my fiancee saying so much bullsh*t about me. Things that are disgusting. It’s not everybody but I would like to understand why we have people like this.
People even from the media who have my number. They called me before the fight to ask for interviews and everything. Then when I lose, they make big jokes about my losses. This is just very disappointing, you know? You train so hard, I fight for money, to provide good health and support for my family in Brazil. To buy a house for me, I want to marry, I want to have kids, make a business, be sustainable. And they don’t f*cking care about my health.
I’m trying to do my best to bring them nice entertainment for everybody. But they just don’t care about my health and if I’m okay or not.” Do you agree with Johnny Walker? Let us know in the comments.
